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Graduate Student Poster Award

Award Info

Description

About the Award

The Graduate Student Poster Awards recognize graduate poster presentations characterized by excellence in research, clarity in presentation, and personal knowledge in a discussion with the judges at the annual convention.

First place award winners will receive a $100 honorarium. In addition, the seven first place winners will also have their posters prominently displayed at the SPSP Annual Convention with their research showcased to the SPSP community. Seven runner-ups will receive a $50 honorarium.

Selection Process

In the first round of judging, posters will be peer reviewed for effective layout and visual presentation. The top 50% of submissions will advance to the second round, where peer reviewers will judge applicants’ award submission statements and posters. Around 40 submissions from this round will be selected as finalists, who will present their posters during the first poster session of the SPSP Annual Convention and be interviewed by several secret judges (typically faculty members). On the basis of the judges' scores, seven first-place winners and seven runners-up will be selected.

Eligibility

Applicants must be the first author on a poster at the SPSP Annual Convention.

Applicants must be student members of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology at the time they apply for the award.

Applicants must be a full-time graduate student at the time of submission.

Applicants must be available to present their research at the first poster session as well as their originally designated session at the SPSP Annual Convention.

Applicants must present a poster that reflects the applicants' work and not that of an advisor.

Applicants' work must NOT be in-press or already published.

Please note: Past winners of the Outstanding Research Award and Student Travel Award are eligible for this award. However, past winners of the Student Poster Award are NOT eligible.

How to Apply

Submission Criteria:

If your first-authored poster has been accepted for the 2018 SPSP program and you meet the other criteria, you may apply for a Student Poster Award by uploading the following documents:

1. A .pdf copy of the poster you intend to present at SPSP 2018.

Competitive posters will include each of the following sections (or sections equivalent to those) below:

a. Background Information or Introduction

b. Objectives, Hypotheses or Research Questions

c. Methods or Procedures

d. Results or Analyses

e. Conclusions or Discussion

f. Any in-text citation should be in APA format, a reference list is not required

Note: If you are selected to present your poster at SPSP as a finalist, you will be allowed to make minor edits to your poster prior to the convention in order to incorporate reviewer feedback. However, you should consider the poster that you submit now to be a final version, ready to be presented at a conference.

2. A 500-word (maximum) summary of the research you will be presenting in .pdf or .doc format.

The research summary should provide an overview of the research and offer information that enhances your poster. This may include more detailed explanations of related literature and how the research question was formed, any secondary analyses and results, or information the presenter might convey in conversations with an audience at their poster presentation

Note: Any submission that exceeds 500 words will be disqualified automatically. In-text citations will count towards the word limit, but a reference list will not.

Judging Criteria and Process: There will be three rounds of judging. Rubrics are posted below for each round.

Round 1: In the first round of judging, submissions are evaluated on criteria that are deemed critical for the successful composition and presentation of an academic poster (e.g., successful use of graphs and figures, clearly organized layout). All submissions will receive Round 1 feedback. Posters that score above the 50th percentile in Round 1 will move onto the second round of judging.

Round 2: In the second round of judging, the reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Scores from this round will be used to select 40 poster finalists.

Round 3: In the third round of judging, the 40 final posters (exhibited at SPSP in the Student Poster Award Hall) will be evaluated by “secret judges” (typically faculty members). In addition to the criteria mentioned above, scores in this round will be determined on the basis of how well authors present their posters in person (e.g., their ability to answer questions, guide viewers through the poster, and communicate the important elements of the research presented).

For more information about what to include within your poster and research summary, or for more details about the judging criteria, please reference the public judging rubrics for Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3.

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